[gentoo-user] what test gets done in pcre makefile to find gcc won't work?

[Jude DaShiell]

I ran emerge-webrsync and agreed to merge some software titles from
gentoo.  The first one was pcre and so far as I can tell, all went fine
until the makefile tested gcc and found gcc doesn't work.  At that point
the emerge errored out.
Now, it's possible everyone is using the systemd profile but I went with
the default profile already used for amd64 installs so it could be that
profile ran me into this particular error.

Something else that was strange, I had the gentoo-minimal cd in use and
had downloaded a stage3 file and a snapshot.  The package
sys-libs/timezone-data did not download in those packages and the handbook
provided no instructions on downloading and installing that package before
trying to set the local time.  Could it be failure to use systemd profile
also brought me this error as well?



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